Roman Katsman & Maxim D. Shrayer 
The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov [PDF ebook] 
A Collection Published on the Occasion of the Writer’s 85th Birthday

This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov—poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel
Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov is one of the most important representatives of Jewish-Russian literature. Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov’s eighty-fifth birthday, thirty-five years after the writer’s emigration from the former USSR, this is the first volume to gather materials and investigations that examine his writings from various literary-historical and theoretical perspectives. By focusing on many different aspects of Shrayer-Petrov’s multifaceted and eventful literary career, the volume brings together some of the leading American, European, Israeli and Russian scholars of Jewish poetics, exilic literature, and Russian and Soviet culture and history. In addition to fifteen essays and an extensive interview with Shrayer-Petrov, the volume features a detailed bibliography and a pictorial biography.

Despre autor

Klavdia Smola, a Moscow-born scholar, is Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Dresden (Germany). She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen, taught at the University of Greifswald, and was research fellow at the universities of Jerusalem, Moscow, Barcelona, Constance and Cracow. She authored the books Types and Patterns of Intertextuality in the Prose of Anton Chekhov (2004, in German) and Reinvention of Tradition: Contemporary Russian-Jewish Literature (2019, in German). Smola co-edited Jewish Underground Culture in the late Soviet Union (Special Issue of the journal East European Jewish Affairs, 2018); Russia—Culture of (Non-)Conformity: From the Late Soviet Era to the Present (Special Issue of the journal Russian Literature, 2018, with Mark Lipovetsky); Postcolonial Slavic Literatures after Communism (2016, together with Dirk Uffelmann); Jewish Spaces and Topographies in East-Central Europe: Constructions in Literature and Culture (2014, in German, tgether with Olaf Terpitz), and Eastern European Jewish Literatures of the 20th  and 21st  Centuries: Identity and Poetics (2013).